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FDA Approves Exenatide for Once Weekly Use
Once-weekly injection of exenatide, sold in the U.S. as Bydureon, has been approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. It’s main competitors are Byetta (exenatide injected twice daily) and Victoza (liraglutide). Byetta and Bydureon are made by the … Continue reading
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Brenna Reviews Sugar Substitutes
Dietitian Brenna at Eating Simple has a recent post on sugar substitutes, which I sometimes refer to as non-caloric sweeteners (not entirely accurate). She reviewed sucralose, saccharine, aspartame, and acesulfame potassium. Not sure why she didn’t cover sugar alcohols like … Continue reading
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Can Diabetes Be Prevented?
Paula Deen’s recent announcement of her type 2 diabetes got me to thinking about diabetes prevention again. If you’re at high risk of developing diabetes you can reduce your risk of full-blown type 2 diabetes by 58% with intensive lifestyle … Continue reading
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Book Review: The Smarter Science of Slim
I recently read The Smarter Science of Slim, by Jonathan Bailor and published in 2012. Per Amazon.com’s rating system, I give it four stars (“I like it”). ♦ ♦ ♦ Mr. Bailor’s weight-management diet avoids grains, most dairy, oils, refined … Continue reading
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Paleo Diet Improves Glucose Tolerance and Blood Cholesterol
A Paleolithic diet improved metabolic status with respect to cardiovascular and carbohydrate physiology, according to a 2009 study at the University of California San Francisco. Here are the specifics, all statistically significant unless otherwise noted: total cholesterol decreased by 16% … Continue reading
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Is Exercise Supposed To Be Fun?
Exercise is not supposed to be fun. If it is, then you should suspect that something is wrong. That quote is from an essay by Ken Hutchins posted at the Efficient Exercise website. When I was a young man in … Continue reading
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LADA Awareness Week
This is the first ever LADA Awareness Week, organized by Diabetes Hands Foundation and dLife. LADA stands for Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults. I think of it as type 1 diabetes that starts in adulthood, although there are some differences from typical juvenile-onset … Continue reading
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Introducing Paleo Diabetic, a New Blog
A few of my patients have asked me if the paleo diet and lifestyle would be good for their diabetes. I’m not sure. A few pilot studies suggest it would be. I expect much more published scientific research over the coming … Continue reading
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Is Grape Seed Extract as Healthful as Wine?
Patients ask me periodically if grape seed extract provides the same health benefit as judicious red wine. Nobody knows with certainty. The health benefits of red wine may be due to resveratrol. Grape seed extract contains potentially healthy antioxidants called … Continue reading
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A Good Night On-Call
At the hospital last night, I admitted an elderly heart patient with chest pain. I asked if he’d ever heard of the Mediterranean diet. He answered, “What’s that? Does it mean you only eat those kinds of people?” Steve … Continue reading
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